SPAETH v. CORPORATION COMMISSION

No. 49954.

597 P.2d 320 (1979)

Sarah M. SPAETH, William Kelly Cronkhite, Winnie May Howell and Walter Schneider, Appellants, v. CORPORATION COMMISSION of the State of Oklahoma, Union Oil Company of California, Ashland Oil, Inc. and Getty Oil Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected July 9, 1979.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Emery, Lytle, Soule & Emery, Oklahoma City, for appellants.

H.B. Watson, Jr., Watson, McKenzie & Moricoli, Oklahoma City, for appellee Union Oil Co. of California.

C. Harold Thweatt, Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, for appellees Ashland Oil, Inc. and Getty Oil Co.


IRWIN, Vice Chief Justice.

Appellants, Sarah M. Spaeth and various other mineral owners, filed an application with the Corporation Commission for a modification of a previous order creating 640 acre drilling and spacing units within the common source of supply to permit the drilling of an additional well to protect appellants from drainage and consequent prejudice of their correlative rights.1

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